March 18, 2007
BOX SCORE GAME ONE
BOX SCORE GAME TWO
FARMVILLE, Va. -- Longwood University swept a baseball doubleheader past visiting Fairleigh Dickinson University Sunday at Lancer Stadium in Farmville; winning the first game 12-7 and the second game 3-2. The Lancers out-slugged the Knights in the opener before taking the nightcap in dramatic fashion after scoring two runs in the bottom of the final seventh inning with two outs to earn the two-game sweep. Longwood improved to 17-6 overall with eight-straight wins, and 10 wins in the last 11 games, and will play again on Tuesday, March 20, hosting Radford University at Lancer Stadium in Farmville beginning at 3 p.m..
In the second game, an old-fashioned left-handed pitcher’s duel between FDU’s John O’Hara and sophomore Kevin Light/Mechanicsville (Hanover) provided for a 2-1 Fairleigh Dickinson advantage into the bottom of the seventh inning. The Knights had scored two runs in the second inning on a two-out, two-run single by Jeff Vincent (1-3, 2 RBI). The Lancers responded with a lone run in the second when freshman Phi Cerreto/Midlothian (Midlothian) (1-2, RBI) doubled with two outs to score classmate Casey Havers/Thorofare, N.J. (West Deptford) (1-2) who had reached when hit-by-a-pitch.
In the seventh, Cerreto walked to lead-off and sophomore Robbie Bailey/Mechanicsville (Hanover) (1-3) was hit-by-a-pitch with two outs and both runners soon advanced a base on a wild pitch. Senior captain Tyler Ames/Exmore (Northampton) (3-4, 2 RBI) provided the heroics with the clutch two-out, game-winning two-run single down the left-field line to plate Cerreto and Bailey with the decisive runs.
Light (3-2) earned with the win a complete-game effort on the mound, scattering five hits -- all singles -- and two earned runs with four strikeouts and two walks over the 7.0 innings. O’Hara (2-1) took the hard-luck pitching loss with 6.2 innings, allowing nine hits and three earned runs with seven strikeouts and one walk, along with the two hit batters.
In the first game, Longwood pounded-out 15 hits en route to the five-run victory; taking leads of 4-2 in the fourth inning, 6-2 in the fifth, 7-3 in the sixth, and 12-7 in the seventh inning. In the fourth, freshmen Scott Kimble/Spotsylvania (Spotsylvania) (3-4, 3 RBI) and Topher Ellis/Virginia Beach (First Colonial) (1-2, RBI) each provided RBI hits with a single and double, respectively. In the fifth, classmate Frank Berry II/Virginia Beach (First Colonial) (2-4, 2 RBI) blasted a clutch two-out, two-run triple for the Lancers. In the seventh, Longwood scored five runs on five hits that included a two-run single from Kimble along with a two-out RBI single by sophomore Jon Quigley/Annandale (W.T. Woodson) (1-5, RBI). The multi-hit attack also included two hits each from senior Tyler Childress/Montclair (Forest Park) (2-5), sophomore Paul Heidler II/Warrenton (Notre Dame Academy) (2-4, four runs), and Havers (2-4).
Longwood senior left-handed pitcher Needham Jones III/Portsmouth (Woodrow Wilson) (3-1) got the pitching win with 1.0 inning of late scoreless relief, yielding one hit. Classmate and right-handed starting pitcher Brian McCullough/Virginia Beach (Princess Anne), on the preseason Wallace Watch List, went the first 6.2 innings on the mound, scattering six hits and four runs, two earned, with seven strikeouts and three walks.
Fairleigh Dickinson took an early 2-0 lead in the first inning with a pair of unearned runs aided by three errors, and added a run in the sixth on an RBI double by Vincente Medina (2-5, 4 RBI). Medina added a towering three-run home run during a four-run seventh inning for the Knights who got three hits from John Paganotti (3-4, RBI), including an RBI single in the seventh as well. Vincent (2-4) also collected two hits in the opener. John Meadus (1-2) took the mound loss with 1.0 inning of middle relief, allowing four hits and five runs, four earned, with one walk.
